Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1

Posted on August 31st, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

I finally decided to install this on my laptop yesterday since I already wiped it out to prepare it for VMware ESXi (which unfortunately doesn’t support the onboard NIC on my laptop).  I got this copy for free from the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here event and I’ve been avoiding it all this time because of all the complaints about it.

Well, after a few hours of working with it, I have to stay that I’m actually glad I tried it out.  So far I’m very happy with it.  I like the new GUI and the performance seems really good on my laptop.  All the applications that I use work with it and no driver issues so far.  I’m running it on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60s.

VMware ESXi

Posted on August 30th, 2008 webmaster 1 comment          Print

I just found out last night that VMware ESXi, VMware’s bare metal hypervisor, is now available for free.  I got really excited and wanted to try it out right away so I decided to use my Lenovo ThinkPad X60s laptop as a test machine.  I backed up all my files last night so I can play around with ESXi on it today.

So I installed it from the bootable CD which seem to have installed fine, but when I tried to change the network settings I keep getting the “Restore Network Factory Settings” screen.  It turned out that my onboard NIC is not supported .

Oh well, I guess I’ll have to wait until Tuesday when I get back to work to test it out on our test server (which is in the Hardware Compatibility List so that one shouldn’t have issues).

New Pages

Posted on August 28th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

I added some new pages (Projects, Links, Books).  Nothing there yet, but I’ll be adding content in the next few weeks.